Joe Sixpack doesn't run Linux

Curt Smith objectpascal at yahoo.com
Fri May 24 12:21:54 PDT 2002


The lack of e-mail detailing financial transactions is also the
reason many businesses chose not to incur the overhead of
secure communications.

If there were servers on the internet which automatically
displayed all plaintext e-mail messages which passed through
them as webpages (for the bored, curious, and opportunistic),
THEN everyone would see the value of encrypted e-mail.

--- jamesd at echeque.com wrote:
> ...
> The big lack of demand for encryption by Joe Sixpack is a
> result of the lack of financial transactions using the 
> internet between Joe sixpack and Bob sixpack. 
> 
>     --digsig
>          James A. Donald
>

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